Christmas apps and accessories for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – 2012 edition
Posted on December 6, 2012
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Christmas is upon us, and the festivities are now underway. If you’re going to have your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or iPad mini with you (and why wouldn’t you), why not make merry with it instead of just sending texts and checking Facebook? As with years past, we’ll round up all of the holiday apps for sharing photos, tracking gift purchases, sending cards and just enjoying the season. Many are free, and all are festive, so head in now to see what you can find under the app tree.
Holiday Fun
- Hado Labs has introduced Snowflakes 1.0, an elegant new entertainment app developed for iPad. Independently engineered and artistically designed, Snowflakes generates more than 9,000 unique and beautifully realistic snowflakes, with intricate ice-like structural details. Easily create single snowflakes with three levels of detail or layer multiple snowflakes to build rich textural effects. Save your compositions to your iPad or share instantly via Facebook, Twitter or email.
- Tell Me Santa is a new Christmas app for iPhone, iPad, and Android. This app allow your little ones to record a video message asking for their presents to Santa Claus. When you first launch Tell Me Santa, it says that has to be configured by an adult. This step will require you to enter the name of the kid, his/her age, behaviour and beloved ones. All of this information will be used to create a personalized speech in Ask presents! menu. Next, you will have to take a photo of your living room to prepare the Surprise! content, which will be available on Christmas day. This application makes a magical feeling for your kids, surprisingly Santa knows everything about them!
- Turn into the coolest santa on Christmas! Make Me Santa decorates your camera or local photos with more than one hundred amazing Christmas effects! Christmas hats, santa beards, funny glasses and fantastic frames produce you the most colorful Christmas in memory.
- Cartoonatic Christmas is a fun, free photo/video app that lets users shoot animated stories with cartoon effects, soundtracks and customized speed. The Christmas edition brings holiday soundtracks, special button that turns on snowflakes during recording and some performance improvements. Plus it’s enhanced for iPhone 5 and latest iOS.
Advent Calendars
- JustKidsApps has released a lite version of its nostalgic Advent calendar for iPad with illustrations by Swiss illustrator Viviane Dommann. The lite version contains the first four windows of the full version, which can be obtained via In-App-Purchase. With Christmas short stories, poems, little games, recipes and ideas for handicraft behind each window, the Advent calendar has something in store for everyone in the family to count down the days until Christmas.
- BCNmultimedia has introduced Christmas Advent Calendar for Christian Kids and Schools by Children’s Bible 1.0, a free Advent Calendar app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. People looking for a Christian Advent calendar will find a Bible faithful Advent calendar for children of all ages. Starting on the 1st of December, kids will be able to open the corresponding window every day until Christmas day, and will find an illustration and a quotation from the Bible.
Christmas Cards and Messages
- Vipos Apps published a new app for Christmas 2012. The app lets users create Christmas card messages and include cute Christmas emoji of Santa, reeindeer, snowman or cookies. The Christmas messages can be texted, emailed or shared to social networks. A second part of the app lets users download a huge number of Christmas ringtones from a collection of international Christmas songs for free. Users get to customize their messages by selecting fonts, font sizes and text colors.
- With this new Quick Invitations app for iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPod touch, from Appnology Ltd, it is easy to produce and send beautiful invitation designs in only a few minutes and at a fraction of the cost of shop bought invitation packs. With the ability to print invitations on your own printer or send invitations via e-mail it is the ideal app for anyone organising an event on a slim budget and perfect at this time of year to get your festive party off to a great start!
- Thanksgiving is over and it is time to start sending holiday cards. Boston AppWorks has announced the release of its brand new iPhone and iPod Touch app: Christmas Cards. With this app, the user can select an existing photo or take a new one with their device’s camera, add some holiday art, write a custom caption and then share their electronic card with friends and family via email, text, Facebook and Twitter.
- Christmas is one of the special days in the year to which everyone is looking forward. It is a well known fact that many people start preparing for Christmas celebrations long before the 24th to make sure everything is perfect. Applistar wants to help you celebrate by giving you an opportunity to create an excellent Christmas and new years greeting card. This is one of the best ways to get the spirits of Christmas with your friends, family and loved ones. With Sewing Christmas Card, you can spend Christmas by telling your story in special way.
Shopping/Gift Lists
- Switchback Media LLC has introduced Gift It – A Christmas Shopping List App 1.0, its new holiday themed productivity app for iOS. Gift It – A Christmas Shopping List App introduces simplicity and a cartoon-like feel into the Christmas shopping list genre. Users can quickly and easily organize and manage all of their Christmas shopping lists this Holiday Season. The user can create and name as many separate lists as they want.
- Ever wish you could remember what your children said they wanted for Christmas? The Radio Santa App is here to help! The fun begins when your little one speaks into your phone and records their wish list, which is passed from one of five different elves, directly to Santa. Your children will be thrilled to have told Santa their wish lists, and you will have a nice recording of what to put under the tree this year.
- Gifts.com, renowned for offering inspired gift suggestions and expert advice, has introduced the brand’s first free iPad application. The Gifts.com 1.1 app offers a unique combination of thousands of expertly curated gift ideas with simple to use tools that enable people to become exceptional gift givers. Special features include Gift Lists which let users create multiple, sharable Gift Lists and provide pop-up reminders for special gifting days so that no important gifts are missed.
- The Gamma Project team has announced a major update for GiftShopper for iOS. With GiftShopper you can easily record your gift ideas and track your holiday spending. Shop around, take photos of potential gifts and save your ideas within the app for reference later. GiftShopper automatically tracks your purchases and ensures that you stay within your gift giving budget. Perfect for setting out to do some serious Christmas shopping. Version 2.0.1 includes many new features.
iDevice Accessories
- AQC, LLC—maker of the FoneStand (an iPhone and Smartphone Holder/stand that provides users with hands-free use of devices)—has announced the release of a Christmas Themed version of the FoneStand. The new Christmas FoneStand includes a festive design ideal for this time of year. The Christmas FoneStand is a great gift for those looking for something outside the norm of Santa’s Grotto. The FoneStand is suitable for hands-free conferencing, watching videos or sending texts.
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